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botanical library. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 

 1813 ; and his eldest son, Sir Charles Lyell, is also a distinguished 

 Member of our body. 



Donald Mackinnoji, M.D., became a Fellow of the Linnean Society 

 in 1816, and died at his residence in Norland Square, Notting Hill, 

 on the ] 0th of last June. 



Edward, Lord Bishop of Norwich, late President of the Society, 

 was bom on the 1st of January 1779. He was the younger of 

 two sons of the late Sir John Thomas Stanley, Bart., of Alderley 

 Park in the county of Cheshire, his elder brother having been raised 

 to the Peerage in 1839 by the title of Baron Stanley of Alderley. 

 His earlier education was received at the Grammar School of Mac- 

 clesfield ; first under Dr. Inglis, who subsequently became head 

 master at Rugby, and afterwards under the late Dr. Davies. The 

 bent of his own inclination was early manifested towards the sea- 

 service ; but the strong objections of his parents prevailed over the 

 aspirations of his active and energetic spirit, and it was decided that 

 he should enter the Church. He became a Member of St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, and took a high degree as B.A. in 1802. In 

 1805 he obtained his degree of M.A., and in the same year he was 

 presented by his father to the Rectory of Alderley, which he filled for 

 more than thirty years. In this capacity his unwearied activity, his 

 zeal for every benevolent object, his exertions for the education of 

 his parishioners in particular, and for the cause of education in general, 

 his frequent and kindly visits to the poorer classes, and his liberal 

 and conciliatory disposition towards all, justly earned for him the 

 character of an exemplary parish priest. When nominated to the 

 see of Norwich in 1837, such had been the influence of his example 

 as well as of his teaching, that he left his parish with scarcely a 

 dissenter; and left it (as is well known) with reluctance, to enter 

 on the cultivation of the wider field to which he was unexpectedly 

 called. 



During his residence at Alderley he became warmly attached to 

 the study of Natural History, and gave occasional lectures at the 

 Mechanics' Institutes of Chester and Macclesfield on geological and 

 zoological subjects. His favourite relaxation was the investigation 

 of the habits of birds ; and his ' Familiar History of Birds,' in two 

 vols. 12mo, 1835, of which a new edition appeared in 1847, afi^ords 

 abundant proof of the extent of his acquaintance with the manners 

 of the feathered tribes. At the same time he was an occasional 

 contributor to the pages of the British, Blackwood's, and other Ma- 

 gazines, among his contributions to which may be particularly 



